Victorian Aluminium Brooch ring game The opals are flanked by

The opals are flanked by two vertical rows of diamonds between them and set in a raised gallery with beautiful open scrollwork

Superb in both concept and execution

and the pyramid

through their great migrations

Victorian Aluminium Brooch ring game The opals are flanked byA sweet Victorian aluminium brooch, dating from the mid 19th century. Aluminium, discovered in 1827 by a German chemist named Whler, was first used in jewellery in the 1850s. The difficulty of extracting the metal meant it was rare and expensive; it seemed the perfect choice for jewellery and, for a short while, was more valuable than gold. A number of manufacturers showed aluminium jewellery at the Paris Exhibition of 1867, where some of the best